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Alibaba unveils hyper-fast AI inference chip

September 26, 2019


Abstract : Alibaba Group on Wednesday launched its first high-performance AI inference chip, Hanguang 800, at the ongoing 2019 Apsara Conference held in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.

HANGZHOU, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Alibaba Group on Wednesday launched its first high-performance AI inference chip, Hanguang 800, at the ongoing 2019 Apsara Conference held in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.

Developed by Alibaba's chip subsidiary Pingtouge Semiconductor, the chip, a neural processing unit, has a computing power 10 times of that of traditional graphic processing units. It can handle more than 78,500 pictures in a second.

Hanguang 800 is expected to significantly enhance Alibaba's computational efficiency in visual search and other applications such as the "city brain," said Jeff Zhang, the group CTO and head of the Alibaba Damo Academy.

The chip business is the first step along Alibaba's long path to be a tech company with synergetic development of software and hardware businesses, Zhang added.

Founded in September 2018 after Alibaba's acquisition of Chinese chipmaker C-SKY Microsystems, Pingtouge launched its first processor XuanTie 910 in July, which can be used in 5G, AI, autonomous driving and other fields.

The Apsara Conference, formerly known as Ali cloud developers' conference, is the earliest platform showcasing developers' innovations in China.

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